Nahum Baruch Minkoff (November 18, 1893 – March 14, 1958) was a Polish-born Jewish American Yiddish poet, newspaper editor, and educator.
His poems and essays appeared in numerous periodicals since then, including Yiddishe Folk, Fraye Arbeter Shtime, Der Tog, Undzer Buch, Kern, Bodn, Kempfer, and Tzunkunft.
[2] He issued the first manifesto of the In-Zikh group, which emphasized modernism, cosmopolitanism, and individualism, with Jacob Glatstein and Aaron Glanz-Leyles.
His poetry was described by one source as intellectualized emotion, and as a trained musician he experimented with subtle rhythms of free verse.
He also wrote a study on the sixteenth century Yiddish minstrel Eliahu Bocker in 1950 and on Glückel of Hameln in 1952.
He became a faculty member of the Jewish Teachers Seminary in 1941, a lecturer in Yiddish literature for the New School for Social Research in 1946, and professor of Yiddish language and literature for the Academy for Higher Jewish Learning[5] in 1952.
He also became professor of Yiddish literature in the Philosophy Department of the Autonomous State University in Mexico City in the latter year to great success.